Man Who Killed 4-Year-Old & Teen Was On Supervised Release From His 4th Prison Term
Rock Hill, South Carolina
The man charged with killing a child and his teen brother during a shootout on Frank Street in Rock Hill on Tuesday night is on supervised release from a 5-year prison sentence for domestic violence, officials confirmed. He was released in October.
Cedric Akeen Creighton, 34, of Lancaster, had been in prison 4 times since 2013, records show.
Lt. Mike Johnson said that Jakolby Clifton, 4, was killed after his mother tried to stop Cedric from hitting her other son, Jamareon Kimble, 19.
Cedric retrieved a gun from a bedroom, police said. He punched the boys’ mother in the face before shooting Jakolby in the back of the head.
“The last image he observed was his mother struck unconscious before he was shot and killed,” Lt. Johnson said.
Cedric and Jamareon fired at each other inside the house, then again outside the house after Jamareon went out the back door and Cedric went out the front.
Jamareon was shot once in the chest and died in the back yard. Police found Cedric collapsed outside the house next door after being injured in the shootout.
Police did not say what the initial dispute was about.
Police charged Cedric with 2 counts of murder, gun possession during a violent crime, and possession of a weapon by a person convicted of certain crimes.
The charge says he is banned from having firearms. A record check shows he is also banned under federal law from possessing a firearm.
Cedric appeared in Municipal Court Saturday morning by video conference from a hospital.
The mother of the two boys killed was not in court but was able to listen to the hearing by a phone provided by a victim advocate. She did not address the court.
From a hospital bed, Cedric told Judge Shantay Greer that he wanted to tell the boys’ mother: “I’m sorry.”
When Judge Greer asked him if he was on probation or parole, Cedric said he was not. However, records and officials said that he was on a “supervised re-entry program” after being released from prison in October for a 2024 domestic violence conviction. That supervision was set to be completed on April 6, records show.
State law requires people convicted of domestic violence in the first-degree to serve at least one-third of the sentence before being considered for parole, said Chrysti Shain, spokesperson for the Department of Corrections.
Prison and court records show he was given 298 days credit towards the sentence for the time he was in jail from his August 2023 arrest to his June 2024 conviction on that charge.
He spent a year and 4 months in prison, (which is the one-third of his sentence) before his supervised release on October 1, 2025, according to prison records.
Cedric has previous convictions in Lancaster County dating back to 2013 for domestic violence, weapons, assault and battery by a mob, and other charges, court records show.
He was in prison from October 2013 to 2016, then again from October 2018 to April 2019, according to records.
After another conviction, he was sent to prison from September 2021 to April 2022, then from June 2024 to October 2025 for the most recent domestic violence conviction, state records show.
